Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images. But as well as creating unprecedented forms of audiovisuality, video work also producedinteractive spaces that questioned conventional habits of music and art consumption. This book explores the first decade of creative video work, focusing on the ways in which video technology was used to dissolve the boundaries between art and music.

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Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images. But as well as creating unprecedented forms of audiovisuality, video work also producedinteractive spaces that questioned conventional habits of music and art consumption. This book explores the first decade of creative video work, focusing on the ways in which video technology was used to dissolve the boundaries between art and music.

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Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music

Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music

by Holly Rogers
Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music

Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music

by Holly Rogers

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Overview

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images. But as well as creating unprecedented forms of audiovisuality, video work also producedinteractive spaces that questioned conventional habits of music and art consumption. This book explores the first decade of creative video work, focusing on the ways in which video technology was used to dissolve the boundaries between art and music.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199861422
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 04/10/2013
Series: Oxford Music/Media Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Holly Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Composing with Technology: The Artist-Composer
2 Silent Music and Static Motion: The Audio-Visual History of Video
3 Towards the Spatial: Music, Art and the Audiovisual Environment
4 The Rise of Video Art-Music: 1963-1970
5 Interactivity, Mirrored Spaces and the Closed-Circuit Feed: Performing Video
Epilogue: Towards the Twenty First Century
Index

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